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Outstanding Payments by Contact
The Outstanding Payments by Contact metric in Xero shows the total amount of unpaid invoices and bills for each contact or customer, which can help businesses manage their cash flow and prioritize collection efforts.
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What is "Outstanding Payments by Contact"?
The Outstanding Payments by Contact metric displays the amount of money owed to a business by each individual contact. It allows businesses to easily track which contacts owe them money and how much they owe. This metric helps businesses manage their cash flow and prioritize collections efforts.
Example: Example: A business owner can use the Outstanding Payments by Contact metric to quickly see which customers are behind on their payments, and prioritize follow-ups accordingly.
Visualizations
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Bar and Line Chart
Used to show comparisons between values.
How to track Outstanding Payments by Contact in Databox?
Databox is a business analytics software that allows you to track and visualize your most important metrics from any data source in one centralized platform.
To track Outstanding Payments by Contact using Databox, follow these steps:
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1Connect Xero that contains the metric you want to track
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2Select the metric you want to track from the list of available metrics
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3Drag and drop the selected metric onto your dashboard
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4Watch your dashboard populate in seconds
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5Put Outstanding Payments by Contact on the Performance screen
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6Get Outstanding Payments by Contact performance daily with Scorecards or as a weekly digest
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7Set Goals to track and improve performance of Outstanding Payments by Contact
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General
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DescriptionThe Outstanding Payments by Contact metric in Xero shows the total amount of unpaid invoices and bills for each contact or customer, which can help businesses manage their cash flow and prioritize collection efforts.
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CategoryAccounting
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SubcategoryPayments
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Date Added2017-03-09
Specification
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Metric Typecurrent
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DimensionalYes
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Decimal DigitsYes
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Currency UnitsYes
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GranularitiesDaily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly.
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Custom Relative PeriodsYes
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Data AvailabilityAt sync, it ranges from now to now.
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Retroactive Data UpdatesExisting data is purged in favor of the most recent synced data.
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Future Data AvailableNo
Visualization
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Cumulative GraphYes
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Favorable Trendincreasing
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Media CreativesNo
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ForecastsYes
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BenchmarksNo
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No data displayed for the Xero metric ‘Outstanding Payments by Contact’
Databox fetches data for all the contacts and checks each contact’s Accounts Receivable balance. Only data for accounts for which the balance is not equal to 0 will then be displayed.
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Currency API limitation for ‘Outstanding Payments by Contact’ Xero metric
When using Xero metric ‘Outstanding Payments by Contact’ in Databox, all contacts without their currency returned via API will have the default currency displayed in Databox, even though their actual currency (seen in Xero) could be different. This is due to Xero’s API limitations that do not support currency conversions.
The same limitation applies to the Xero metric ‘Overdue Payments by Contact’.
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